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Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Coopers Plains
Coopers Plains · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Coopers Plains is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Coopers Plains had a population of 5,675.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coopers Plains

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Griffith University

    Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland, Australia. The university was founded in 1971 and officially opened in 1975.

    2.5 km · public university in south east Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Toohey Mountain

    Toohey Mountain is a mountain at the eastern side of the City of Brisbane's suburb of Moorooka in Queensland, Australia. It was named after James Toohey, an Irish born Sydneysider who made his wealth in the California gold rush, before settling in the newly formed state of Queensland.

    3.5 km · mountain in Australia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Brisbane Arena

    The Queensland State Netball Centre, also known commercially as Nissan Arena, is a multi-purpose facility located in the southern Brisbane suburb of Nathan. The centre features a 5,000 seat indoor arena that is the home court of Super Netball team the Queensland Firebirds, and previously National Basketball League club the Brisbane Bullets.

    3.1 km · netball arena located in the southern Brisbane suburb of Nathan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brisbane Christian College

    Brisbane Christian College is an independent, non-denominational Christian co-educational school located in the Brisbane suburb of Salisbury, Queensland, Australia. Established in 1985, the College offers education from Pre-Prep to Year 12 and operates as a ministry of Life Church Brisbane.

    2.4 km · Brisbane Christian College is a K-12 Private School in Brisbane · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Acacia Ridge Air Raid Shelter

    Acacia Ridge Air Raid Shelter is a heritage-listed former air raid shelter at 174 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1942 to c. 1943 by Allied Works Council.

    2.1 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex

    Archerfield Second World War Igloos Complex is a heritage-listed group of hangars at 98–138 Kerry Road, Archerfield Airport, Archerfield, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They were built from February 1943 February to circa April 1944 by the Allied Works Council.

    1.6 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    God's Acre Cemetery

    God's Acre Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery in front of Archerfield Airport, along Beatty Road, between Kerry & Mortimer Roads, Archerfield, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as Grenier's Burial Ground, Coopers Plains Cemetery and Oxley Cemetery.

    2.1 km · cemetery in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Moorooka State School

    Moorooka State School is a heritage-listed state school at Sherley Street, Moorooka, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The buildings were designed by Department of Public Works and Frederick George Kirkegard with the first buildings being constructed from 1928 to 1929.

    3.7 km · historic site in Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Coopers Plains

Airports
Brisbane (BNE), 22 km · Gold Coast (OOL), 81 km · Sunshine Coast (MCY), 108 km
Stations
Archerfield Airport, 2.7 km · Altandi railway station, 3.2 km · Banoon railway station, 1.4 km · Coopers Plains railway station, 100 m · Rocklea railway station, 3.3 km
  • Gold Coast → Coopers Plains
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · A$8–11
  • Maroochydore → Coopers Plains
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · A$14–18
  • Toowoomba → Coopers Plains
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · A$14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Coopers Plains

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Coopers Plains. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTranslink is responsible for all trains, buses, ferries and trams in South East Queensland and regional urban buses.
  • Get aroundBuses and ferries have validators to touch as you board and alight.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Brisbane, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    K'gari (formerly Fraser Island)AU

    8 ways of moving, 31 sources

    262 km
  2. 02
    Kangaroo IslandAU

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,746 km
  3. 03
    Bruny IslandAU

    11 ways of moving, 24 sources

    1,824 km
  4. 04
    Milford Sound / PiopiotahiNZ

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,317 km
  5. 05
    WakatobiID

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    3,976 km

If you know how people move in Coopers Plains – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Coopers Plains

Coopers Plains is 11 km from Logan City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sunnybanksuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.7 km
  • Sunnybank Hillssuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.9 km
  • Robertsonsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.2 km
  • Rockleasuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia3.7 km
  • Archerfieldsuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2 km
  • Nathansuburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia2.5 km